How to Fix the Nginx Package – Software Installation Guide

aptnginxsoftware installation

I have installed nginx .

dpkg -l nginx
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend 
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii  nginx          1.6.2-5      all          small, powerful, scalable web/pro

Everytime i go to install other package ,the error info displayed.

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'nginx-full' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'nginx-common' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

How to fix it ,not to let the info displayed again when to install other package?

Best Answer

This is nothing serious. Reinstall the packages:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall nginx-full nginx-common

Example

After deleting /var/lib/dpkg/info/mc.list via

sudo rm sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/mc.list

I get the followning

% sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gimp-gmic numix-icon-theme
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 5.130 kB of archives.
After this operation, 106 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp-edge/ubuntu/ vivid/main gimp-gmic amd64 1:1.6.5.2-0v0~ppa~edge [1.828 kB]
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/numix/ppa/ubuntu/ vivid/main numix-icon-theme all 0.3+524~201509050731~ubuntu15.04.1 [3.302 kB]
Fetched 5.130 kB in 4s (1.172 kB/s)           
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'mc' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

Fixed with

sudo apt-get install --reinstall mc
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